Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t James Delingpole; Yale University has announced the closure of its Climate Change Institute. All funding will be cut by the end of June.
After a University decision to cut all its funding, Yale’s Climate & Energy Institute will close by the end of June.
The loss of the institute, which for the last eight years has conducted research related to issues of climate change, leaves a hole in climate and energy studies at Yale. Although the Energy Studies academic program will continue within Yale College, students in the YCEI said they were outraged by the budget cuts and subsequent closure of an institute that is one of the only research-focused climate change programs for undergraduates on campus. The announcement came in a Monday afternoon email to the YCEI community from institute co-directors and geology and geophysics professors David Bercovici and Jay Ague, and follows years of cuts to the institute’s funding, according to students involved in the organization.
“While not all good things have to come to an end, sometimes they just do,” Bercovici and Ague wrote. “The YCEI will stop activities and close up shop as of June 30, 2016.”
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The announced closure left students in the institute with unanswered questions about why the formerly thriving group had its funding cut. University Provost Benjamin Polak — who is currently engaged in annual budget talks with every area of campus — did not respond Monday to questions about the reasons for the YCEI’s funding cuts. Salovey was also unavailable for comment Monday evening.
One possible explanation for the end of the YCEI is that the institute did not generate many alumni donations, Goldklang said. James Barile ’18, who is involved with the YCEI through a solar energy initiative, said the University appeared to be shifting away from undergraduate climate change research, which he said is not very public, toward climate change initiatives that are “more showy.”
Read more: http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/03/01/climate-change-institute-shut-down/
Perhaps it is difficult to solicit alumni donations, from people who know that the end of their own gravy train is uncomfortably imminent.
Eric Worrall:
Thanks for the info. of yet another part of the slow demise of the AGW scare.
Please inform of other examples as you come across them.
Richard
An undergraduate research institute is a bad idea anyway, in any field. This is more of a litmus test of easy, free flowing research funds and the cycles of such monetary rainmakers. Youth indoctrination camps will have to move on. I would suggest the Isle of Youth as the next venue.
As a Canadian watching in horror at what my government is doing, this is a welcome bit of good news!
“…an institute that is one of the only research-focused climate change programs for undergraduates on campus.”
How awful! How many only ones are there?
Here’s an idea for re-purposing the building. We are in dire need of a an institute to support whistle blowers in federal agencies such as NOAA, State Dept., DOE, EPA, IRS, and others. The ranks of those in need of legal support is growing.
If that is the building, it would not be out of place on the plaza in Cuzco with its temples erected on top of previous Inca temple foundations, and as testament to successive waves of religious authority.
Could not possibly be connected with their Founding Director, “Nobel Laureate” lecturer and long time IPCC Head, the slippery railway engineer, Rajendra Pachauri being finally charged with a basket of sexual harassment crimes would it? http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/51209218.cms
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/04/10/former-ycei-director-faces-sexual-misconduct-allegations/
Go get a hoot out of their climate change communications in cartoons — http://www.triplepundit.com/2016/02/3p-weekend-everything-need-know-climate-change-cartoons/
Not even undergraduate quality work there
All I can say is that Institutes that produce persuasive results you can capitalize upon DON’T get shut down.
Patchauri had ex gratia “PhDs” from a raft of Universities. He seemed to collect them. I would expect that a few of these will follow Yale and close unproductive departments. But let us not forget the originator of the scam, Maurice Strong. Patchauri was never smart enough to devise it, only promote it for his own gain.
Just close Yale
…’toward climate change initiatives that are “more showy.”’….and probably a lot less “sciencey”, too. Anyway something that will generate much more alumni donations for the institute.
No doubt climate change itself is responsible for the closure of this undergraduate “research” program. It is, after all, responsible for everything else that happens or doesn’t happen in the world.
Oh, I get it.
I thought that the “Climate Change Institute” referred to was simply a place where those suffering from climate change delusions were safely institutionalized for their own good.
My mistake.
I knew this would happen after the science was settled.
If settled, what else is there to know?